State of the Union Speech

    I feel as though through Obama's entire speech, he was just trying to dodge a bullet.  He knew, as did everybody, that he was under enormous pressure to deliver an epic speech, and I believe that in this aspect he failed.  Granted, he is a good public speaker and has great charisma, but his speech seemed to contain promises that seem impossible to uphold, including his idea about electric vehicles("1 million electric vehicles by 2015". America cannot break it's current dependency on oil this quickly.  And besides, there are 300 million people in the country, so 1 out of every 300 people driving an electric car is a breakthrough?  I'm baffled.) and his plan for a nationwide high-speed rail system (This won't work.  Not when cars and airlines are so reliable and the huge amount of regulations that would inhibit the rails from traveling any faster than a car can.).
    His words on education seemed to be hopeful and full of positive statistics, only these statistics are flawed.  Sure, schools may be graduating students at higher rates, but this is only because the number of dropouts (students who would bring the failing percentage up) is increasing and the likelihood of failing a class is decreasing exponentially (There are multitudes of schools in the country that will do whatever is possible to prevent a student from failing a class to improve the school's image.  As long as they're passing, the school looks good, and the flawed statistics "improve".).  When reality is attributed to these skewed statements, they seem much less impressive, do they not?
    I would like to say that I'm glad he's deciding to finally deal with the issue of illegal immigration, but I can't.  I want the issue dealt with, but the rate that Obama is fulfilling former promises (here's a link: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/), I'm a little concerned that he may soon forget about it or just disregard any further discussions on it.
    Several other comments he made seemed tremendously vague, probably on purpose so that he could walk the line between parties.  Take, for example, his statement that South Korea has greater home-internet access than America.  The word 'access' was probably intentionally used because of it's vague connotation that could be used to describe availability of internet, or the ability to use internet?  If it refers to availability, data has repeatedly shown that 95% of Americans could have internet if they had the desire, but only 66% of the population has a broadband connection.  It's true that the only country to surpass the US in network traffic is South Korea, but this traffic is not from the aforementioned home.  It's mostly from government affiliated jobs and locations of that origin, thus disproving Obama's claim that South Korea has greater home-internet access than Americans do.
    So, as much as I'd like to hope that Obama meant what he said he was going to do, I find it hard to believe that he honestly thinks the stuff he's saying is really going to help.